Beatrice Straight - Details

BEATRIX PASZTOR has designed costumes for 19 feature films, including Psycho, Good Will Hunting, To Die For, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, My Own Private Idaho, Drug Store Cowboy, She's So Lovely, U-Turn, Excess Baggage, Indecent Proposal, The Fisher King and The Bloodhounds of Broadway.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pasztor studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, graduating in 1984. During this period she designed couture shoes and costumes for theatrical productions. She moved to New York in 1984 to pursue her career and earned a living as a hat designer and a window display dresser at Bloomingdales and Henry Bendel's before landing jobs on low-budget films in New York. In 1988, she relocated to Los Angeles.